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By Jane F. McAlevey

General Nonfiction

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols…

No Meat Required

By Alicia Kennedy

General Nonfiction

No Meat Required is a bestselling culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food—Diet for a Small Planet for a new generation The vegan diet…

Night Flyer

By Tiya Miles

Biographies and Memoirs

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • A Washington Post Notable Book • Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award •One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of the Year • One of AAIHS's Best…

New Cold Wars

By David E. Sanger

Nonfiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon…

My Toxic Husband

By Elena Miro

Advice and How-To

Are you feeling unhappy and confused in your relationship, and you don't know what's wrong? Do your partner's moods swing wildly from smothering you with love to hurling insults? Does your partner make you feel like you're crazy? If you…

Narrative Change

By Hans Hansen

Business

Texas prosecutors are powerful: in cases where they seek capital punishment, the defendant is sentenced to death over ninety percent of the time. When management professor Hans Hansen joined Texas’s newly formed death penalty defense team to rethink their approach,…

My Greek Table

By Diane Kochilas

Cooking

Celebrity chef and award-winning cookbook author Diane Kochilas presents a companion to her Public Television cooking-travel series with this lavishly photographed volume of classic and contemporary cuisine in My Greek Table: Authentic Flavors and Modern Home Cooking from My Kitchen…

My Mama, Cass

By Owen Elliot-Kugell

Biographies and Memoirs

"The author's love for her mother burns beneath every sentence, illuminating the story from within. An overdue tribute to an underappreciated icon."--Oprah Daily A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “Mama” Cass Elliot…

Moving Stretch

By Suzanne Wylde

Advice and How-To

Moving Stretch teaches an effective, powerful, and enjoyable type of resistance stretching that not only strengthens and frees the body but also reconditions the body’s fascia, rejuvenates the tissue, releases adhesions, relieves pain, and increases flexibility.